The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

The century's longest solar eclipse is set to take place in August 2027 with an estimated 90 million people expected to ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

While the film covers what the CATE 2024 project is and the value of science and data collection, it more importantly follows ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.